Yet people still want to clamber aboard the sinking vessel. I hear that one a certain Mr XÂ has recently signed up to sing the party song as a press officer at Labour's Victoria Street HQ.Â

Mr X was lately employed as a press officer at, er, the Ministry of Defence where he worked on the operations desk. From one warzone to another, etc, etc…. And quite what this says about life at MoD I can't begin to imagine.

psÂ This post has been edited to remove the Mr X's real name following a request for anonymity from Labour HQ.Â Any suggestion that working for the Labour Party is now so humiliating that staff cannot be named publicly is wholly unfair and I reject it entirely.